A few years ago I fell out with a friend who accused me of copying her business ideas. It was a good friend and I respected her enough not to even consider doing so. She behaved strangely towards me for a few months and invited me on to Twitter and I later found out she had been involved in harassing me along with several others (I'm guessing she had multiple profiles but there were others).
I was shocked and upset because she was a friend but after several phone calls she pointed out that she believed there was some kind of smear campaign and maybe someone had put malware on my phone as I was being stalked. I am still not sure the source but by the time she told me that I had a backlog of nuisance calls, emails and accounts being taken over and could recall familiar posts on twitter on forum topics I had posted on before.
I have had cyber harassment in the past and at the time I believe it was from an ex who had access to my house at the time. I found posts online impersonating me signed with my email after googling my email. I have a complex past as I am a survivor of abuse and although I have spent many years accessing therapy the stigma has never gone away. At the time I assumed it could only be her as it was mostly information that could have been uploaded from an offline journal. There were other incidents including money missing from my account and a flood of mail that was odd. There many other issues but I dismissed it as coincidence. We parted company with me being wary but unsure.
Fast forward several years later and I come across her online again. The past seemed like water under the bridge and whilst I was still wary I gave her the benefit of the doubt because there were several incidents where other people seemed to join in. That was around 2008-9 and then again when I rejoined FB around 2010 she turned up but I think she made a request in 2011. Again I decided to accept the request and just leave the past behind. Everything seemed alright until she started sending messages that seemed normal at first but then started accusing me of not wanting to give my mother money for looking after my son whilst I worked. I was very confused as I had just mentioned that I finally went non-contact due to a toxic relationship with her. She was aware that our relationship was difficult as DM blames me because she feels guilt for my pest I have tried my hardest to make amends despite ending up in a lot of hardship due to her lack of action. Anyway she started ranting about me being ungrateful but since the arrangement with my mum were paid and my mum has always earned more than me it was an odd thing to say. I stopped contact after that as I remembered why we split up. The message was private but later when my friend fell out with me it opened a can of worms as I realised that there were a chain of incidences that happened between me and friends similar to the one with the business issue over a period of years.
The friend with the business problem told me to check my mail and email for anything odd. I found emails from a spammer that spammed me and friends with an odd email on mobbing and stalking and others on all sorts of familiar topics from the original issues with my ex. My mail had gone mission weeks at a time and some had not been delivered. There were lots of other things but to cut a long story short it looks like I've been stalked and trolled for years and had mis-information shared. My emails were hacked several times and I treated them as separate incidents.
I contacted the police as a few friends suggested there may be underlying fraud or at least identity theft. I had no idea where to start with the police so the first time I approached them they laughed and said ignore it and I couldn't be stalked by more than one person. The second time I phoned up as all my accounts were taken over and I worried because I was approached on more than one occasion by different people referring to the twitter stream that I was on when my "then" friend fell out with me. I think the third time I contacted them may have been after I was approached. I would have ignored it but threats were made that made me worry for the safety of myself and my son. After I contacted the police they then insisted they couldn't see a crime cos I couldn't identify the individuals because I had deleted my profile at the time.
In the end my MP made them log it as harassment. What concerns me most besides our safety is that it seems to be a chain of bullying tactics taking place over several years without my knowledge. I am guessing it could have started because she saw me as an easy target at the time and due to my past I would have had contact with the MH services so it could be why the discrediting posts were made. One of the things that the police kept doing is trying to get me to specify the category of crime even though things like mail theft and hacking are illegal. It seems to be an ongoing thing where misinformation was shared and even forged letters which might encourage people to make malicious (not on their part) complaints. I didn't see the hoax about mobbing and stalking until after looking through my email but it looks like it was either copied from an email during the earlier harassment or repeated by the same person. I have been ignored by the police as "crazy" at first but the more I have explained it to more techs friends and street wise people the clearer it is that it my be underlying fraud and the discrediting seems genuine.
I can't ignore it but not sure what to call it other than harassment. I am wondering if it would be classed as domestic violence as she maybe the source. On the other hand the business friend could have hacked old emails and repeated it, however I can't think of a motive from the second lady that would encourage her to continue for so long.
Sorry about the long post but a friend wants to take me back to the police as he as well as others are starting to understand the full picture especially because if the hoax, I can't post it as I believe it is malicious and can easily be used to con vulnerable people. The combination of ID theft and smearing was done to isolate me so I wouldn't have easily had witnesses. However I didn't catch on so there are witnesses.
So would anyone have any idea how to approach this? I'm aware I might get some derogatory replies or discrediting remarks but I'm dealing with police who say things like they never use social media so they cannot understand how evidence can be removed eg. Twitter profiles adding you posting then deleting soon after you refresh so that the message gets sent so quickly that some screen shots aren't possible. Also I would like them to look at the issue of the missing mail and forged letters that look official but are duplicates.